Hartford City Officials Consider Takeover Of Library System

Hartford’s mayor and city council leaders are so ticked off over the decision by the Hartford Public Library’s board of directors to close two neighborhood branches that they’re considering taking over the library system.

How the city would engineer such a move is unclear, but city council President Calixto Torres said Wednesday that he and Mayor Eddie A. Perez want to look into it. They know this much: the city gave the library $8.2 million this year.

“It’s time to consider looking at taking the full management of the library as a specific department,”